Improvement in car-couplings



.3. DAY.

I -CAR-COUPLING. No.183,493. Patented Oct.24, 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

BRIGHAM DAY, OF OHIGOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 183,493, dated October24, 1676; application filed July 12, 1876.

7 is a specification:

The object of my invention is to enable cars 'to be coupled manuallywith perfect safety,

and also to permit the link to be guided at the same time to the mouthof a bunter not immediately opposite the one holding the link, and thiswith all of the precision that a hand immediately grasping the linkcould effect.

In the drawings, Figure I shows a front View of a bunter having myattachment. Fig. II is a View of the under side of the device and Fig.III is a profile view of the same.

In Fig. I a metallic plate, B, is shown as forming a handto, by means ofthe recesses 1) upon its upper edge, receive and. hold the link 0 whenswung up against it. This hand B is formed upon the end of the arm D,which arm has the two joints or hinges 0 cl, which swing at right anglesto each other, the one, cl, being the point of attachment of the arm tothe body of the car, and the one, 0, being intermediate between thehinge cl and the hand B. The hand B is also attached to the handle-pieceE, which projects upon both sides of it, to be reached from either sideconveniently by the brakeman. The hand B with its piece E hangs by itsweight, as shown in Fig. I, to be below the bunter and out of the way,

and in operation the brakeman from either side of the car grasps thehandle E and swings up the hand B to seat the link-and, as the hunter ofthe approaching car happens to be to one side or the other, or above orbelow the one having the link-moves the hand B by its handle to directthe link, being meanwhile entirely released from the danger in separablehitherto from the occupation of a brakeman.

In Fig. I the pin H is shown to be conuected by a chain or otherflexible connection to the handle I, working through the cleat K in thetop of the car, so that the car can be uncoupled, or the link in placecoupled, by the insertion of the pin from above and in safety; but thegreat danger of holding and guiding the link, which is frequently soughtto be obviated by complex self-couplers, is completely overcome by thesimple device herein described.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim is In combination withthe bunter and link of a car, the piece B, having the seat I) for thelink, handle E, and arm 1), with double joint 0 d, substantially asshown and described.

BRIGHAM DAY. Witnesses R. F. HYDE, T. M. BROWN.

